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At Store 36.5, the nation’s first store dedicated to social enterprises, every item has a good reason to be purchased. A bottle of bean paste supports descendents of ethnic Koreans who were forcibl...
Updated : 2012.08.01 20:04
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For 14 years, Lee Young-soo has brightened the futures of more than 500 people on the margins of society by providing boiler engineering classes. The 57-year-old started his school in 1998 when the ...
Updated : 2012.08.01 20:02
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Bae Jun-sik, a 59-year-old man who grows ginseng in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, became the first farmer to join the “Honor Society” club of large individual donors. “Honor Society” was founded...
Updated : 2012.07.25 19:52
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Gang Su-suk, 52, and her husband Tag Jeong-sig, 60, have a big family by anyone’s standards, but of their 10 children, eight were adopted and a ninth is being fostered. “When my husband and I had ...
Updated : 2012.07.25 19:47
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79-year-old Ryu receives government order for helping underprivileged students For 30 years, she has been a benefactor for more than 150 students. Ryu Yang-sun, 79, the owner of a small salted fish...
Updated : 2012.07.18 19:56
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The Community Chest of Korea raised 369.2 billion won ($322.6 million) in 2011, an 8.7 percent increase from the previous year, the public welfare foundation said Monday. Corporate donations jumped ...
Updated : 2012.07.11 20:19
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Students, doctors and professors at Ewha Womans University launched a volunteer corps Monday to provide medical and educational services in Korea and Cambodia. A total of 164 volunteers will work in...
Updated : 2012.07.11 20:19
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Mannam Volunteer Association is hosting two musical fund-raisers in Seoul on Saturday. The first will be an open mic event in Seoul’s Itaewon area from 1-4:30 p.m. Entry will be 5,000 won at the do...
Updated : 2012.07.04 19:28
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Friends of a former English teacher in Korea now battling cancer in the U.S. are asking people to buy a T-shirt that he helped to design. The shirt designed by Tyler Schroeder is now being sold onli...
Updated : 2012.07.04 19:28
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A Busan-based Gaelic football team is hosting a beach party fund-raiser to support local orphans. The football team and other Busan volunteers have organized the beach-themed event to support two orp...
Updated : 2012.07.04 19:28
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Former pro-beach volleyball player Han Ji-yeon is to visit Jeju to give a free clinic for Korean women to help support a charity on the island. She agreed to make the trip after learning about Jeju ...
Updated : 2012.07.04 19:27
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Liem wishes to delve deeper into the historical, social and ethical underpinnings of Korean adoption and the legacies of transnational adoption on adoptees today. She and her team have already collec...
Updated : 2012.07.04 19:27
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Korean-American adoptee aims to map ‘Geographies of Kinship’ across the globe Growing up in 1960s Fremont, California, Deann Borshay Liem imagined that she was the only Korean in a white family ac...
Updated : 2012.07.04 19:27
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A party to raise money for a Korean animal shelter is being held in Seoul this Saturday. Four DJs ― 4play, Jonny Blaze, Todd and Danny ― will entertain people at the party from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Dri...
Updated : 2012.06.27 20:06
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A peace-promoting basketball tournament is to be held in Gwangju on July 7. The event is being hosted by MANNAM Volunteer Association, the largest volunteer association in Korea. The first MANNAM Pe...
Updated : 2012.06.27 20:06
